Coop Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 I totally agree. It's just more finesse that's not needed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chet Posted October 19, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Yesterday I started to work on the pieces for the doors. After I got everything close to size I put grooves in everything, these will eventually become rabbets for the glass. I stacked them all together and lightly ran both edges of the rails and stiles through the drum sander. After that I ganged them together with clamps and cleaned the grooves up with the router plane. First the rails... Then the stiles. After this, I cut the tenons with the dado stack and a sacrificial fence. Also I attached a piece of scrap to my miter gauge with double stick tape to limit tear out. I dry fit each door and then marked them as a set. I guess I got a better set up with the dado stack this time around because I had to do very little adjusting with the plane. I then laid out and drilled the holes on the stiles for the door pins. No pictures of the drill press in action - Sorry. But I had set up the fence on the drill press along with a stop block and that way I only had to do the lay out on one stile. Then I finished the rabbets with the router table ( no photo) and then chamfered all the edges. All the chamfers finished. Then the glue up of the three doors. Just a point of interest here, If you have 31 inch jet clamps, you can actually clamp something that is 32 3/8 inches, but I don't think it would go an 1/8 more. Door closest to you as an example. After they came out of the clamps I added a bigger chamfer to the top edge of the door this allows the door to swing down with out rubbing against the cabinet itself. Here is the second try. The first try is explained below. Because of gravity, when you close the door it should hang straight down well on my first try it didn't. At first I thought that the support pins in the side frames were to close to the door and holding it away. But when I looked they weren't even touching the door. After checking a few other things it finally dawned on me that it had nothing to do with the bookcase or the door, it has to do with the slope of my garage floor. Once I shimmed up the case (light colored wood) the door was perfect. Here are all three in place. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Awesome progress! Doors look great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 How do you like the inset vise? Does it stay dust free enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 As usual great work, Chet ! Looking amazing. Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted October 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 33 minutes ago, C Shaffer said: How do you like the inset vise? Does it stay dust free enough? Carus, I am actually pretty happy with it. For the the price it does a great job. You do get the wood shavings from plane work fall inside by the screw but it doesn't interfere with the screw action at all. I do blow it out with compressed air when I clean up the shop. But I have never had to stop work because of residue in there. I am pretty impressed with the holding power too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 You're making a lot of progress and it looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Looks great Chet! With finish those things are really going to pop! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chet Posted October 22, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 I started out the day by finalizing the door pins so there wasn't any racking but doors still slid with out any slop. After that I milled up some edge banding and glued it to the false bottom pieces with lots of blue clamps. I also milled up and glued up some pieces that will eventually get used for the base. After that I fitted the center interlock piece. When I cut this to final size I did it with about a 2 degree bevel to it so that when you place the case on top of the interlock piece, it will go on easily but when it seats all the way down it has no movement. I used glue and brad nails to set it in place. Interlock piece on bottom case. I then cleaned up the excess glue and sanded the false bottoms, cut them to final size and glued them into place making sure that they came up to the back side of the door when the door is in the closed position. This way the false bottom also acts as a door stop. False bottom detail. Last thing I did today was glue in the bottom portion of the backs to the bookcase. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 Awesome work Chet! Super awesome job on the journal as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 They look awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat60 Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 Like this alot Chet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 Chet you are doing an awesome job on this project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 Looking great, Chet. You're working pretty fast on this ! Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 Chet, are you doing the new Guild videos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted October 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 1 hour ago, Llama said: Chet, are you doing the new Guild videos? Yea Mel, this is the guild project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan G Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 This project is a great one to follow. Looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 1 hour ago, Chet K. said: Yea Mel, this is the guild project. No silly, you should be a guest builder on the Guild. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted October 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 9 hours ago, Llama said: No silly, you should be a guest builder on the Guild. Okay, I get it now. That will be the last time I read a post before A.M. coffee. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted October 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2016 I have two components to do yet, the top and the base. I figured I should get the top glued up and in clamps so it can set over night and after that start on the base. After cutting the boards to rough length I need to joint them together to get a nice glue joint. I know the easiest way to do this is on the jointer, but I thought I would see in I could get good results with the hand plane. First time trying this. Then I broke out the basket jointer once again ( Insert laugh track here ) so I could use some biscuits for alinement in the glue up. All clamped up. Milled up all of the pieces for the base. Then I did the layout of the mortises. There are two different locations of the mortises on each leg. After getting both laid out I transferred the lines around the leg and to the ends to help with the line up at the router table. I matched them up with each other both ways to make sure everything lined up. Layout lines on the router table to show the edges of the bit in both directions to help with the start and stop block set up and the fence set up. Start and stop blocks. Fence set up. Test cut. I am happy with that. I am doing these in three steps to get the final depth of 3/4 of an inch. There is one mortise on each leg with this set up. Then readjust the fence and cut the other set up on the other sides of each leg. Done. Stood them up in the alinement they will be in, on the base to make sure that the mortises are located correctly. In the past when doing mortise and tenons I have left the mortises like this and rounded the shoulders of the tenons but in the attempt to expand my skills I am going to square up the mortises this time. First one done. This first one took about seven minutes to do the last one took just under four minutes, but I am learning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 29, 2016 Report Share Posted October 29, 2016 It's not a race! Looking awesome Chet! Just curious if you thought about using a hand held router and a guide instead of the table? Nothing wrong with your results, just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted October 29, 2016 Report Share Posted October 29, 2016 Looking great Chet - looks like a LA jack or is it actually a LA jointer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted October 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2016 41 minutes ago, TIODS said: Just curious if you thought about using a hand held router and a guide instead of the table? I thought about it except for one problem, I don't have a guide for my hand held router yet. 14 minutes ago, estesbubba said: looks like a LA jack Yea Mike, its a LV low angle jack. I am pretty happy with it. Real comfortable to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 29, 2016 Report Share Posted October 29, 2016 1 minute ago, Chet K. said: I thought about it except for one problem, I don't have a guide for my hand held router yet. You need to talk to your salesman! Selling you a router without a guide.. What an idiot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chet Posted October 31, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 After I cleaned up the mortises... I cut the tenons. Did a quick dry fit. then cut the taper on the legs, and cleaned them up with my bevel up smoother. After that I cut the arch in the rails of the base, Cleaned them up with the oscillating spindle sander and finished by hand with a block and sand paper. Then added the chamfer to all of the base pieces. Then glued and clamped them up. This is the top and... The edge detail on the top. Base plus one, plus two, And three. Just a few things to clean up, double check all of the sanding and then start applying the finish. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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